Review: Young Lincoln portrait 'The Better Angels' amounts to more than its Malickisms

Posted by · 4:43 pm · February 9th, 2014

The debut feature from regular Terrence Malick collaborator A.J. Edwards bears a lot of the master’s influence in its depiction ofg Abraham Lincoln’s childhood years, but impresses on its own terms too.

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Cannes jurors range from Ewan McGregor to Jean-Paul Gaultier

Posted by · 1:15 pm · April 25th, 2012

Cannes unveils a diverse Competition jury, while the Directors’ Fortnight and Critics’ Week selections complete the lineup of films.

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Berlinale Diary: ‘Farewell, My Queen,’ ‘The Delay’

Posted by · 6:58 pm · February 9th, 2012

Just one full day into the 2012 Berlinale, I’m struck by how many faces I recognize as I traipse across the snow-dusted triangle of the festival center at Potsdamer Platz: crimson-blazered festival stewards who all seem to man exactly the same stations they did last year; international critics in the press room whom I identify instantly by their hair, glasses or oddly colored overcoat, but couldn’t possibly name; even the slickly sullen barista at the one decent coffee source over the road.

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